Lakshmi S. Kamaraju, MD

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Department / Division:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Behavioral Medicine

Address:
DUMC 3889
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
(919) 684-4010

Office Telephone:
(919) 684-4726

Fax Telephone:
(919) 681-7506

• M.D., Andhra University, India, 1976

• Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1985-89

• Psychosomatic Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, 1989-90

Clinical Interests:
Chronic pain, consultation and liaison, depression, anxiety disorder and organic mental disorders, schizophrenia

Research Interests:
Relationship between dopamine and nicotine receptors.

Schizophrenia - attention and memory

AIDS dementia and drug abuse.

Representative Publications:
Swanson C., Frendenrich C., McEvoy J., Nelson L., Kamaraju L.S., Wilson W.H. Insight in schizophrenia and mania. J. Nervous & Mental Diseases. 183:752-755, 1995. (1995)

Sundar K.S., Kamaraju L.S., Singfelder J., McMahon J., Gollapudi S., Wilson W.H., Kong L-Y., Hong J., Weiss J.M. Beta endorphin enhances the replication of neurotropic human immunodeficiency virus in fetal perivascular microglia. J. Neuroimmunol. 61:97-104, 1995. (1995)

Sundar K.S., Kamaraju L.S., McMahan J., Bitonte R., Wilson W.H., Kong L-Y, Hong J., Lee J.E. Endogenous opioids and HIV infection. IN: AIDS, drugs of abuse and the neuroimmune axis. (eds) Friedman H., Eisenstein T., Madden J., Sharp B. Plenum Press.. NY (In press)